Sports in Perspective
When Larry Fitzgerald all but sealed a Cardinals victory with his 32 yard reception in overtime, Browns fans reacted in either one of three ways. One, burying their face into their hands in disgust for the 1, 209th time. Two, cracking a slight smile. Or three, staring stone faced with no emotion whatsoever. The reaction [...]
How do you adequately evaluate an NFL quarterback these days? You compare him. So in the case of Cleveland Browns quarterback, Colt McCoy, let’s begin… Drew Brees–Once upon a time, quite a few people compared Colt McCoy to Drew Brees. When you’re a white, undersized quarterback, die hard fans have no choice but to compare [...]
On Thursday night, the Cleveland Browns will square off against the Pittsburgh Steelers in Cleveland’s one and only primetime game of the year. Or in other words, on Thursday night, the Cleveland Browns will be playing in their Super Bowl. It’s not often the Browns play on national television, but when it happens, Cleveland folks [...]
No matter how important professional sports are to our everyday lives, we’ll never be comfortable with athletes making millions of dollars at our expense. Fact. So it’s safe to say that when Browns fans first heard that Peyton Hillis was demanding a new contract in which he would be paid a crap load of money, [...]
This story was written prior to the Browns loss to the Bengals on Sunday. From a crazed Browns fans’ point of view, Browns/Ravens and Browns/Steelers are the biggest rival games in nearly all of professional sports. But not too long ago something dawned on me: It’s time to put the Cincinnati Bengals right up [...]
Readers Note: This column will self destruct around 4:00pm on Sunday. Some fan bases are so downtrodden to the point that the tiniest events can trigger optimism. I’m talking about the kind of optimism that goes beyond laughable. Everything you are about to read is a standard example of just that. Week 12 is the [...]
If you’re in desperate need of a wide receiver for your fantasy team, Greg Little, Josh Cribbs, and Mohamed Massaquoi are available in over 90 percent of leagues. We are going into week 10 of the season and every single Cleveland Browns wide receiver is available for pickup. Yes, that is how bad the Browns [...]
Peyton Hillis isn’t a victim to any “Madden Curse,” he isn’t a victim to anything other than his own self. When Browns fans came out in bunches to vote Hillis onto the cover of the most recent Madden game, they weren’t concerned with installing a hex upon their own player. Ironically though, they should have [...]
Allow me to quickly touch on activity deemed illegal. Here are the results and opening lines of the Cleveland Browns last three games: Cleveland (+6) 17 Oakland 24 Cleveland (-3) 6 Seattle 3 Cleveland (+9.5) 10 San Francisco 20 It’s hard to dismiss these consecutive game scores as a pure matter of coincidence, and that’s [...]
Next to offensive linemen, linebackers are the hardest position-player to quantifiably, as well as qualifiedly, evaluate. It’s easy to look at a guy like Ray Lewis and understand the positive impact his play has on the teams defense, but where the evaluation gets tricky– even deceiving–is for a guy like Indianapolis Colts, Pat Angerer. He [...]